Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Davenport

Davenport , noun

[From the name of the original maker. Encyc. Dict.]

A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. — Encyc. Dict
A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. — A. B. Edwards